- access control
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The ability to selectively control who can get at or manipulate
information in, for example, a Web server.
- accessibility
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The art of ensuring that, to as large an extent as possible,
facilities (such as, for example, Web access) are available to
people whether or not they have impairments of one sort or another.
- ACSS (Audio cascading style sheets)
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A language for telling a computer how to read a Web page aloud.
This is now part of CSS2.
- amaya
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
An open source Web browser editor from W3C and friends, used to
push leading-edge ideas in Web client design.
- apache
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
An open source Web server originally formed by taking all the
"patches" (fixes) to the NCSA Web server and making a new server
out of it.
- browser
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A Web
client
that allows a human to read
information on the Web.
- CERN
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The European Particle Physics Laboratory, located on the
French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
- click-stream
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Information collected about where a Web user has been on the
Web.
- client
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Any program that uses the service of another program. On the
Web, a Web client is a program, such as a browser, editor, or
search robot, that reads or writes information on the Web.
- CSS (Cascading style sheets)
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A W3C recommendation: a language for writing style sheets. See
also style sheet.
- cyc
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A knowledge-representation project in which a tree of
definitions attempts to express real-world facts in a
machine-readable fashion. (Now a trademark of Cycorp Inc.)
- digital signature
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A very large number created in such a way that it can be shown
to have been done only by somebody in possession of a secret key
and only by processing a document with a particular content. It can
be used for the same purposes as a person's handwritten signature
on a physical document. Something you can do with public key
cryptography. W3C work addresses the digital signature of XML
documents.
- DOM (Document object model)
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Within a computer, information is often organized as a set of
"objects." When transmitted, it is sent as a "document." The DOM is
a W3C specification that gives a common way for programs to access
a document as a set of objects.
- domain name
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A name (such as "w3.org") of a service, Web site, or computer,
and so on in a hierarchical system of delegated authority- the
Domain Name System.
- DTD
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
In the SGML world, a DTD is a metadocument containing
information about how a given set of SGML tags can be used. In the
XML world this role will be taken over by a schema. Sometimes, but
arguably, "document type definition." See also schema.
- dublin core
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A set of basic metadata properties (such as title, etc.) for
classifying Web resources.
- EBT (Electronic book technology)
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A company started by Andries Van Dam and others to develop
hypertext systems. Later bought by INSO corporation who, it seems,
re-used the acronym to be eBusiness Technologies.
- EDI (Electronic data interchange)
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A pre-Web standard for the electronic exchange of commercial
documents.
- enquire
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A 1980 program, named after the Victorian book Enquire Within
upon Everything.
- filtering
-
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The setting up of criteria to select a subset of data from a
broad stream of it. Filtering information is essential for everyone
in daily life. Filtering by parents of small children may be wise.
Filtering by others- ISPs or governments- is bad, and is called
censorship.